جامعه شناسی سلامت، بهبودی و بیماری

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available.
It introduces and integrates recent research in medical sociology and emphasizes the importance of race, class, gender throughout.
This new edition leads students through the complexities of the evolving Affordable Care Act. It significantly expands coverage of medical technology, end-of-life issues, and alternative and complementary health care—topics students typically debate in the classroom. 　Many new textboxes and enhancements in pedagogy grace this new edition, which is essential in the fast-changing area of health care.New to this Edition
*More textboxes relating the social aspects of medicine to students’ lives
*Expanded coverage leading students through the complex impacts of the ACA and health care reform
*Expanded coverage of medical technology, end-of-life issues, and alternative and complementary health care
*’Health and the Internet’ sections updated and renovated toward student assignments
*New, end of chapter lists of terms
*Updated test bank

فهرست مطالب کتاب جامعه شناسی سلامت، بهبودی و بیماری

• Chapter One- A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
• Chapter Two- The Development of Scientific Medicine
• Chapter Three- Social Epidemiology
• Chapter Four- Society, Disease, and Illness
• Chapter Five- Social Stress
• Chapter Six- Health Behavior
• Chapter Seven- Experiencing Illness and Disability
• Chapter Eight- Physicians and the Profession of Medicine
• Chapter Nine- Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians
• Chapter Ten- Nurses, Mid-Level Health Care Practitioners, and Allied Health Workers
• Chapter Eleven- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Chapter Twelve- The Physician–patient Relationship: Background and Models
• Chapter Thirteen- Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician–Patient Relationship
• Chapter Fourteen- The Health Care System of the United States
• Chapter Fifteen- Health Care Delivery
• Chapter Sixteen- The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology
• Chapter Seventeen- Comparative Health Care Systems